Is that a GNU library that it's linked against? I see GNU MP listed in the text on the right. We need a GNU license that specifically excludes any use by the NSA or security forces. Also, the source code for the spyware must be made open source if it links GPL'd code, right? So GNU should be suing the British firm for not publishing the source code of their malware.

How long do you think it'll take before the United States government attempts to intervene and kill this lawsuit using the state secrets privilege? After all, if this spyware is used by governments, details of its functionality may compromise United States security activities by alerting the subjects of surveillance to its presence on their machines.

We need a GNU license that specifically excludes any use by the NSA or security forces.

Yes, because the NSA won't respect the Constitution of the United States of America, but will break down in fear after facing a hippy license. They'll just start adding to version numbers the suffix .SOSUEME.

When do egocentric USians learn that US law =/= world law? If this goes through it has to be reciprocated - a can of worms the USA doesn't want to open (as fun as the lawsuit in a chinese/iranian//belorussian court "Citizens of the World vs the NSA/CIA/US Gov." would be)

The doctrine and rules of state immunity concern the protection which a state is given from being sued in the courts of other states. The rules relate to legal proceedings in the courts of another state, not in a state's own courts. The rules developed at a time when it was thought to be an infringement of a state's sovereignty to bring proceedings against it or its officials in a foreign country. There is now a trend in various states towards substantial exceptions to the rule of immunity; in pa...